Author: Alexander Moradi

Details of variable construction as well as sources can be found in the Web Data-Appendix of the paper. Several primary sources are proprietary.

This dataset adds the same control variables as used in Africa regressions, so to document the effect of using control variables that are marred by measurement error. Please see the <Grid Africa> folder for construction of variables for the Africa grid and shapefiles.
We used the same shapfiles as for the Africa gird and merged the output files in Stata.

Input files
1) <gh_gaez2091grids.xls> (GAEZ index of cash crops produced by Ghana: coffee, palmoil, cocoa. Export values of 1900 and 1924 and production values assigned to grids)
2) <murdock_ghana.dta> (Murdock variables for the ethnic groups that can be found in Ghana, merging id=ethnic)
3) <date_col.dta> (Date of colonisation of ethnic group from Henderson & Whatley - based on Thomas Pakenham's "The Scramble for Africa.", merging id=ethnic)
4) <dist2explorer.dta> (Distance to Nunn's explorer routes)
5) <dist2muslimcentre.dta> (Distance to Muslim centres)

Output files
1) ghana_grid_MissingVariables.dta

Sources: See Web Data-Appendix of the paper
